Customers ofonline bank Eggwere hit with site
access problems from the evening of Wednesday 22 August
afterEgg's network provider Cable &
Wireless suffered an outage.
The problems went well into Thursday 23 August, with web
analytics firm Keynote reporting that customers suffered long web
waits before "being thrown into search engines or a blank
page".
Cable & Wireless said it was re-routing Egg customers across
its networks to help them avoid the undisclosed technology
problems.
The egg.com site is now working normally. The
bank was recently taken over by Citigroup.
